Patch Notes 9/25/13

Here are the latest bug fixes and improvements! Sorry for the misfire on getting the correct notes out as soon as we normally do.

Improvements and Changes

• Valla now has a new and unique character model, as well as unique animations for her attacks and special abilities! Check her out!
• Added Gem cost to the confirmation popup for Conjuring
• Blacksmith cooldowns now stack if a cooldown is less than 4 hours when triggered
• Blacksmith and Talent cooldowns reduced across the board

Bug Fixes

• Adjusted power calculations upward for all players, to revert a change which lowered them. Neither the previous change nor this change has any effect on combat.
• Fixed a Guild Warfare revive bug
• Fixed a bug that makes some players miss the Dungeon Clear Rewards
• Fixed a Carribean Pirate bug that only gives half of the gems on High Seas Saturday when players have the L6 Guild City buff
• Fixed a Guild Chests bug that only gives half of the gold
• Fixed a Mounting quest bug
• Fixed a World Boss bug that makes some players miss the Killing Rewards

Dawn all of these changes and bug fixes are excellent ones save Valla. She looks horrible and very sexual now. Her stance is very unnatural looking. Her new skill attack animation is great. Could we please rethink her cleavage its very distasteful.

Thank you for making the cool down times make more sense in comparison to how long it takes to actual reach levels based on experience.

Could you also add in a confirmation for spending gems on stamina since many people have accidentally bought stamina when they did not want to?

I really wish we'd had some lead time on this reduced cooldown change. This has really thrown a wrench in things as I assumed the cooldowns would be reverted by today so I didn't save as much as I could have in preparation for this. Now I'm scrambling for coins and credits to try to keep up with such drastically low cooldowns with such high resource requirements.

I still think reducing the cooldowns was the right move, but the resource costs are really high and at least right now it's hard to keep up. I can't afford any coins or credits right now for Rune Temple or Heaven Tavern. Things will of course level out after a while but it's still rather jarring.

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Originally Posted by mattp169

Dawn all of these changes and bug fixes are excellent ones save Valla. She looks horrible and very sexual now.

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Have you seen your assistant lately? Or Titties McGee aka Shayd?

Okay the reduced cooldowns are permanent that is great to know, they were starting to get real troublesome for me.

I agree about an adjustment needed for the new Valla. I pretty much expect the designers to continue to come up with whorish looking women, but there's serious anatomical rules being broken with this graphic. The joint articulation is absolutely monstrous. She looks more like the spawn of one of the labyrinth minions than a sexy assassin or sensuous warrior.

Given the amount of females who actually play this game, you may consider, maybe, talking to us every now and then to see if maybe there's something we'd like to look at for eye candy. You might be surprised what we come up with.

My objection to Valla isn't her lack of meaningful attire, it's the absolute disregard for physics and anatomy. It looks like some kid ripped her apart like a doll and put all the joints back backwards.

The stackable cool downs up to 4 hours is awesome by the way. However, could i suggest that this 4 hour time be changed. The total time stackable should be linked to the player's level. Since as you go up in levels your cool downs are going to get bigger and bigger. Therefor at a certain point this feature is not going to usable. So to keep it usable, linking the length of time you can stack to your level could allow someone at level 80 to stack up to 12 hours while a level 40 player would have only 6 hours stackable. The hours I picked are arbitrary and some serious math would be needed to come up with actual numbers. But the idea is out there.

Just noticed the stackable cooldowns and that is one your guys' better ideas. Makes it a little easier to lvl a new sword or staff without being constantly online at its lower lvls.

Well they should seriously decide when to stop messing with power. Before the update several days ago I was 3.8 mill, then I built myself up to 4.2 mill - after update I was put at 3.9 mill. Now yesterday I built myself up to 4.5 mill and today I am 4.3 mill. The funny thing is I have crafted several guardian swords, guardian staff, champion relic, did a bunch of blacksmith and talent upgrades and I am still at the power I was before the update. So in reality all this work that has been done, gems spent, crafted higher armor, did a bunch of blacksmith / talents, and all I increase is a simple 100k in power. Hell I even sainted a few characters since the update. Come on seriously they say the power does not effect your battle but they wrong because some heroic bosses I was killing are not A LOT harder to defeat.

Also while we at it - A huge PROBLEM for many now is the fact that way too many icons are on screen and makes it hard for most to navigate. I have a 23" screen and even the icons are a bother for me many times, I pity those on laptops. Why can't you reduce the icons that are being used ? Make them smaller so they all fit on top or on the side ?

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Originally Posted by mattp169

The stackable cool downs up to 4 hours is awesome by the way. However, could i suggest that this 4 hour time be changed. The total time stackable should be linked to the player's level. Since as you go up in levels your cool downs are going to get bigger and bigger. Therefor at a certain point this feature is not going to usable. So to keep it usable, linking the length of time you can stack to your level could allow someone at level 80 to stack up to 12 hours while a level 40 player would have only 6 hours stackable. The hours I picked are arbitrary and some serious math would be needed to come up with actual numbers. But the idea is out there.

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If it's increased at all I wouldn't go over 6-8 hours stacking. The point is to be able to queue up enough to go to sleep and wake up without wasting time that could have been used for a cooldown. It's not so you can queue up entire days or weeks, so I understand why they started with a 4 hour limitation.

I Agree you ****ed the game up yet again i lost 200 k in power did not get it back and now a HR Boss that i have been killing for 2 weeks before the Patch I can NOT KILL and Both my Stunners miss way more then they hit now WTH can you guys get something right for once

I personally think Valla looks disgusting. The Tynon artists must be all male due to the fact that most of the male avatars are fully clothed (woe to the women players) while most of the female avatars are either topless (as in the case of the new Valla) or nearly so (most of the females in Aerie). But Valla's breasts hanging out along with her pot belly and Gumbyesque stance makes her look more like an alien porn star or disjointed pole dancer rather than a fighter. Leave in her attack animation as that's really cool but ffs do something with her floppy breasts. And the blademaster's haircut almost made me cry. At least Dawnbringer still has some length to his hair. We have to watch these heroes over and over in battle. The least Tynon artists could do is give the women some eye candy to watch since we have virtually nothing. Refer to Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai or Josh Holloway from Lost or even Colin Farrell in Ondine if you need inspiration.

The sad part is I even leveled up a level since the update too. I just now hit 4.3 mill when I should be almost 5 mill now.

It's amazing how some players have not been effected by this "power change" at all though. One of the players that I could beat but cant now has increased 500k over night, not once has his power went down.

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Originally Posted by mikeycramer200_7987000

I Agree you ****ed the game up yet again i lost 200 k in power did not get it back and now a HR Boss that i have been killing for 2 weeks before the Patch I can NOT KILL and Both my Stunners miss way more then they hit now WTH can you guys get something right for once

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Originally Posted by Dawnseeker

• Valla now has a new and unique character model, as well as unique animations for her attacks and special abilities! Check her out!

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Sorry to break it to ya, but she is NOT unique at all... all the other white and blue heroes that used to look exactly like valla now also look exactly like this new valla.

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Originally Posted by VillainX

Sorry to break it to ya, but she is NOT unique at all... all the other white and blue heroes that used to look exactly like valla now also look exactly like this new valla.

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ROFLMAO. You sir need to borrow Boo's signature.

Who cares about the new look, valla was useless before and still is

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Originally Posted by support_7047278

Who cares about the new look, valla was useless before and still is

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Really? I thought she was quite useful early in the game.

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Originally Posted by Revan

Really? I thought she was quite useful early in the game.

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She's an acceptable tank until you get any of the gold heroes that perform the role better like Rhize, Adamanti, or Bloodstorm.

thought that the half gem with level 6 guild bug was fixed?

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Originally Posted by DaBooMan

thought that the half gem with level 6 guild bug was fixed?

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How many gems total can you get on a saturday with a level6 guild ?

60, 3 sails at 10 a sail x 2 for guild.

I refreshed and they have appeared, fixing should not mean we have to refresh to get them tho.

I have to say, I think Valla's new character model looks ridiculous. If you had a hankering to change a character model, you could have changed Saffron so she doesn't look identical to Alexa.

I had to refresh to get the gems without level 6 guild buff. WHat is it with having to refresh now to get rewards?

And for $1,000,000. Here is your Question.

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Originally Posted by mattp169

WHat is it with having to refresh now to get rewards?

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Your 4 possible answers are.

A) The RNGcoder decided it likes to refresh.
B) The fairy picked refreshing as means of getting rewards.
C) The real Devs have been sacked and to make more money they have hired college kids.
D) The patch lies to get us to believe they are fixing stuff.

Any explanation or mention of why the sail resets were removed?? And will they be reinstated?

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Originally Posted by MisChief

Any explanation or mention of why the sail resets were removed?? And will they be reinstated?

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doubt they will be bringing it back it was a bug

6 sails + level6 guild = 120 free gems every saturday

Too imbalanced imho

Basically, your 4.75 on a saturday will give you 120 (sails) + 50 (gem up) + 10 (assistant) = 180 gems

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Originally Posted by Herby

6 sails + level6 guild = 120 free gems every saturday

Too imbalanced imho

Basically, your 4.75 on a saturday will give you 120 (sails) + 50 (gem up) + 10 (assistant) = 180 gems

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People still have to use money to get the extra rewards. Tynon could make it so you just not get another sail on Saturday's and still give us the extra 3 sails if we choose to purchase more gems. It was a nice perk most enjoyed, especially if you had a horrible 1st 3 sails. I'm sure 99% of the people would LOVE this future "bug" brought back to the game.

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Originally Posted by Greenly

People still have to use money to get the extra rewards. Tynon could make it so you just not get another sail on Saturday's and still give us the extra 3 sails if we choose to purchase more gems. It was a nice perk most enjoyed, especially if you had a horrible 1st 3 sails. I'm sure 99% of the people would LOVE this future "bug" brought back to the game.

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Real fun for everyone when top players decide to sink your guild six times instead of three.

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Originally Posted by rafmeister_5440998

Real fun for everyone when top players decide to sink your guild six times instead of three.

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It is important to note, that pirates was not designed for every single player to make 3 successful sails a day.

I was one of those people who would occasionally spend $4.75 for 3 additional sail ATTEMPTS. And I get sunk quite regularly. So sometimes getting those 3 extra sails is my only way to get 1 successful sail in that day. And this was available to anyone. You did not have to be VIP 8 or anything to spend the $4.75 and get your sails reset. SO this hurts everyone.

Also its important to note that they added in the guild chest feature which can get you a map or 2 everyday depending on luck.

Also most of the players on server 1 who coined to get extra sails, took smaller players with them to help out their guildmates thereby helping additional people in the game - YES even non coiners got a benefit from coiners. SO this hurts those players as well.

NOw it is important to note that some people were told by customer support in the past that the extra sails were a bug/glitch. REALLY???? We aren't stupid. The gems and the sails don't share coding, so it was intentionally put in there. Now its been taken away. WHY???? Of course Dawn has not commented on this issue. He is always quiet on things like this. The obvious answer is they got enough complaints about the feature. Now we just have to figure out how many complaints is enough to change a feature. I mean this change is obviously costing them money. Now if we can figure out how many complaints this took we could start getting enough complaints filed to get the level 4 chip embed cost remove.

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Originally Posted by rafmeister_5440998

Real fun for everyone when top players decide to sink your guild six times instead of three.

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That's why we give half credit for starting out. :)

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Originally Posted by rafmeister_5440998

Real fun for everyone when top players decide to sink your guild six times instead of three.

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That's why we give half credit for starting out. :)

Bad Dawn - Double posting. I mod may need to infract you - ROFLMAO

hey wait I just realized something

Dawn said thats why you get half rewards fro just trying in response to people complaining about being sunk 6 times.

That means Dawn thinks we should get 6 sails. Good to know. So when can we start getting our 6 sails a day again????

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Originally Posted by mattp169

NOw it is important to note that some people were told by customer support in the past that the extra sails were a bug/glitch. REALLY???? We aren't stupid. The gems and the sails don't share coding, so it was intentionally put in there.

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You can't possibly know that without seeing their code. Just because a feature is separate in the UI doesn't mean it has fully separate code behind the scenes. Code reuse is desirable in order to keep your code base small and more maintainable, at least in most development offices. I'm not defending them here, just pointing out you have no idea what their code looks like, and it's dangerous to assume its structure when making an argument, as for all we know there was some intertwined code that was causing a reset on the number of sails.

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Originally Posted by Klepto

You can't possibly know that without seeing their code. Just because a feature is separate in the UI doesn't mean it has fully separate code behind the scenes. Code reuse is desirable in order to keep your code base small and more maintainable, at least in most development offices. I'm not defending them here, just pointing out you have no idea what their code looks like, and it's dangerous to assume its structure when making an argument, as for all we know there was some intertwined code that was causing a reset on the number of sails.

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I'm no coder by any means, however if they did reuse code that *happened* to cause a glitch that reset sails, it would be logical that this same glitch would reset other aspects like investment, benefits, or labs...not saying that they didn't "reuse" code in just an instance of sailing and gem purchase causing a rest, but if the recycled in one element, it is more logical to assume they recycled it else where as well. Nothing else was seen to have reset after gem purchase, thereby implying that purchasing gems indeed reset sails, was intentionally inserted, and was not a bug/glitch...but again, I'm no coder.

Carribean Pirate bug not fixed only got completed rewards fir crossing on server 68. not just for Saturday but rewards for beginning voyage on other days not being paid.Seems most of these bugs should have been fixed before the game went live.

but you don't even get the rewards for starting out

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Originally Posted by ozbashir_1110957

but you don't even get the rewards for starting out

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Don't bump old threads! This is an old Patch Note.

Watch the date on the thread before making a reply.

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hello is it possible to create another banish character after the 2200 hrs or some time between 1700 and 1800 that way us people who have to work all day can at least get a chance to take part in the banish points. Thanks